A Whole New World
Why did many Europeans settle in the New England region of the Colonies?
Religious Persecution
New social reforms flooded the nation as a result of this Religious movement.
The 2nd Great Awakening
Abraham Lincoln was known for spending long hours awaiting news from the battlefield during the Civil War, made possible by this invention.
Telegraph
Imposed by the Crown, it prevented colonists from moving west after defeating the French in The Seven Years War.
The Proclamation of 1763
Stagnation in both the Democrat and Republican platforms led to a new party gaining popularity in the late 19th century known as?
The Progressive Party
The Spanish incorporated the remaining Natives into their empire through a system of forced conversion to Christianity.
Encomienda System
This legislation would repeal the Missouri Compromise as it allowed for citizens to vote on whether they wanted their territory to become a free or slave state.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Beginning at the end of World War II, this conflict reached its height once the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba as a threat towards the United States.
The Cold War
Hayes would become President, federal troops would be heading back up North, and newly freed African American's facing increased discrimination would be an effect of?
The Compromise of 1877
"Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent." Is quoted from?
John Locke's Natural Rights
DAILY DOUBLE
This 17th century system was used to help recruit new settlers to the Virginia Colony, Europeans would be given land if they purchased passage for themselves, or another person to the Colony.
Headright System
Constituted that enslaved persons could not sue in federal court, and that it was unconstitutional for congress to ban slavery in any U.S territory.
Scott v. Sandford
The assembly line increased production speed and revolutionized the way that factories operated around the world. It was first implemented in this man's factory.
Henry Ford
DAILY DOUBLE
"The North was bettering itself at the South's expense" was a common feeling Southerners had about tariffs. This would lead to bitter debates on states' rights and whether states could declare federal laws unconstitutional.
Nullification Crisis
"Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one." Is quoted from?
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Hartford settlers drew up the first ever written constitution in the United States known as...
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The idea that an educated woman was responsible for educating her children, sharing the teaching of good patriotic works and how to be an American.
Republican Motherhood
A time where monopolies were rampant, and industrial society was overtaking the agrarian lifestyle, and corruption was overtaking politics. Without it our country would not have progressed as quickly as it did.
The Gilded Age
Senators showed up with their families to have front row seats at this battle, but would have to retreat once Stonewall Jackson and his Rebels pushed Union forces back in a shocking defeat.
The First Battle of Bull Run
(Battle of Manassas)
Three hundred years of frontier experience had shaped American culture, promoting independence, individualism, inventiveness, practical-mindedness, and democracy. But people also became wasteful of natural resources. This is the idea of?
Turner's Frontier Thesis
A popular practice used to gain passage to the colonies in which a traveler would become indebted to a landowner in exchange for travel.
Indentured Servitude
"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" is what he campaigned on. He would be the President to go on and fulfill Manifest Destiny by annexing Texas and later settling up with Britain over the Oregon Territory.
James K. Polk
A plan for improving the economic growth of the Union, Kentucky Representative Henry Clay proposed a three part system which would give the federal government more authority to make internal improvements.
The American System
The goal of this foreign policy was to deter European expansion into the Western Hemisphere
Monroe Doctrine
New Western States were beginning to omit any regulations regarding the requirement of being a landowner to vote. This new birth of a non-autocratic democracy gained popularity in the Eastern States and greatly helped this candidate get elected as he was known as the first President of the "Common Man"
Andrew Jackson